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[celina63]

Email exchange with Virgil

[rose]

Movie recommendations to virgil...

[BottomlessPitMan]

okay... I know we are going to probably need this sooner or later so that he will confide in others, such as Rose, more... so can I play the bad cop??? and Rose and others can play the good cop... that way he will leak himself to you others more... me, I know enough about the way he works and I don't care to be a trust worthy friend of his so...?

[jasonnyc]

Finally registered here.

I have been dealing with Virgil as well. I can be the good cop...this is my first letter and his response.
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Good morning, Mr. Tatum.

My name is Jason Block and I was one of Nisha's retrievers in NYC...the man on camera with the bad temper and the worse British Accent.

Why I write you is simple.

Another man maybe trying to besmirch your name. He goes by the handle "scapegoat0531". He claims that you fired him without cause and thinks that Emile Smithson(a new friend of mine and old one of yours) is "a bootlicker" and anyone who works for you now is a "TatumThink slave".

Care to elaborate as to why this guy would want to take you down?

Jason Block
NYC

"0531," eh? Very interesting.

As far as this person's motives are concerned, there will always be those jealous, undisciplined, misguided individuals who attempt to lash out against those more talented and focused than they are, in an attempt to make themselves feel better about their own inadequacies. This person exhibited extremely unprofessional behavior time and again, and was finally dealt with after several warnings. Unfortunately, some of these types of people occasionally are able to slip through the cracks and land a job with TatumThink, but they are soon weeded out.

Thank you for passing along the information.

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Virgil Tatum
http://www.virgilkingofcode.com

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This was my latest reply--nothing back from him.

You are quite welcome. Are you enjoying all the attention your webpage is getting? I mean a lot of people have been going through your webpage trying to find out the true meaning of the enigma of Virgil Tatum. There must be hundreds of layers of the onion of Virgil.

Do you even know who you really are? (That is not being negative, that is just being inquisitive?)

There are some people in this world who don't ever find out who they are.

Being a person who is considered not in the mainstream(being more intelligent than most...smart people never get the girl anyway), I see where you are coming from.
Mozart died at 35 in a pauper's grave--to use a musical artist, not just one with a paintbrush. He should have been lauded like the world, but was never appreciated until he were dead. Or do you see yourself liking Salieri?

Jason Block.

See Rose--I made it!

[xero]

well, Celina brought up a suggestion with his love life, being a touchy subject for him, obviously, it seems this is a topic to shy away from. Go more towards art, and figuring out his puzzles, comments on his 133t coding skillz, maybe even bring up that you wonder if Ian could hack his site, though that might be getting a little too close to the love life thang thang.

I, personally, want to know more about Erdleman. Bring up the comment from Emile about him saying "YES! YES! TURTLE MEN! TURTLE MEN!" and that we think he may have been saying "Erdleman! Erdleman!"

He knows the man, fingers have been pointing at him more so than the other painters-of-fakes, even Nisha thinks so, so we need more info about him.

EDIT: Nevermind this part

also, that "0531" thing is interesting, as both Virgil AND Emile have said it's significant. Didn't Scapegoat say it was the day he got fired? I have a feeling it's much more significant than that, maybe bring it up?

[HitsHerMark]

I sent him an email from work. Haven't recieved a reply.

[SuperJerms]

Tried playing the bad cop. No reply so far. He probably just thought I was a troll.

[BottomlessPitMan]

I also have the plan to tell Virgil what Nisha said to Ian about busting him and sending him the file of their conversation.... I think I'll do that... could bring up certain information...

Edit: Here is my message to him...
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Dear Virgil,
I am one of those that have been following you, Nisha, and Ian... no doubt others have contacted you. I come to you because I believe that Nisha is NOT your future... and in fact Nisha is the reason you are in this entire predicament to begin with. I believe she is using you and Ian to find out what Gunter, God rest his soul, put on those SD cards in the Audis because she will be caught for what she is... a theif and a liar.
I do have proof that you are being played off of Ian by her... here I submit the sites for your access...

A conversation between Ian and Nisha
http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/nisha/001429.html

A conversation between you and Nisha
http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/nisha/001430.html

Now if you listened to these, which from your quisitive personality you have, you would find that she says the same thing to both of you more or less. I can also say that she probably killed Gunter also because she didn't get any information from him.
Also I ponder why Oak and Myke are dead after helping Nisha and failing on some aspect of their part of the mission... Oak and the video jackets and Myke had communications trouble... coincidence, I think not! More over, Nisha could have used someone she knew to sign that document in Ian's name and then she killed them... their cases to never be solved because of lack of evidence... the killer of the three men( Myke, Oak, and now Gunter) had to be trained and very professional about it to not get caught... and Nisha has those skills.
You may want to call Erdlemen, as he has helped you in the past, and ask him if he has been visited by any women that seem a little 'on the edge.' He will probably go into detail about how a women, stunningly beautiful and slightly insane seeming, got into his house, tied him to a chair, and began interrogating him about why he makes his paintings and other such questions... and whilst questioning happened she slashed the projects he was working on, he could also tell you that she ate a piece and then described in amazing detail what hue it was and the base that it used.
All I will say is that you should be more careful about what you say around her and about how you say certain stuff... I can only hope that I am wrong. Only time will tell.

Best of Luck on the Nisha Chronicles Vol. I and with life in general,
-BottomlessPitMan

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I just hope he bites into my theory... and calls Nisha on playing the both of them... I really hope he does it... it would change him forever...

[HitsHerMark]

[jasonnyc]

I got some more replies...

Interesting analogy, Jason. Are you asking about my musical preferences, or whether I consider myself more like Mozart or Salieri? If the latter, I've never been much for pop-culture armchair psychoanalysis, but at least your rubric for comparison is more erudite and compelling than most, so I'll bite.

There are times when I feel like Mozart, a conduit through which the divine speaks, and there are also times when I feel like Salieri. It's often a struggle between the two; sadly, Salieri usually wins.

Then I wrote back...

I wasn't going for the armchair pop-psychology. I was trying to get to know you. But genius is often for the most part misunderstood. And you, as the "King of Code", it seems to me, has never been appreciated for the genius that you are. I mean look at what you have put in your webpages and how many people have wanted to find out whats happening.

That's brilliance.

And let me tell you about Salieri. He was brilliant too.

Jason Block

And then he wrote...

Brilliant, yes. But forever overshadowed by the brilliance of his contemporary, all but relegated to a footnote in the pages of Mozart. I cannot dwell in such a place.

Thanks for understanding me, Jason.

And then this was my last response...

I understand.

If you watch the movie on DVD, (again I know your lack of time...) you see what happened. Salieri couldn't understand how Mozart was given the gift of talent by God.

But you see, I think I do understand you. You want to leave a lasting imprint on the world. You want to have a legacy that people for years to come. You want the world to know the brilliance of Tatum.

I think a lot of people appreciate it, even though they called that 20X20X20 thing the "evil cube."

To put all these layers on the website is brilliant. People are pulling their hair out to get to the center. They WANT to know.

It's a start.

At least I think so.

Jason